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May 9, 2014, WSWS The Obama administration has entered into direct talks with the leader of the political front for Syria’s Western-backed “rebels” on arming them with US surface-to-air missiles, amid fresh confirmation that these forces are dominated by Al Qaeda-linked militias. Ahmad al-Jarba, the chief of the Syrian Opposition …
Read More »U.N. Probe Chief Doubtful on Syria Sarin Exposure Claims
May 6, 2014, Inter Press Services The head of the U.N. team that investigated the Aug. 21, 2013 Sarin attack in the Damascus suburbs, Ake Sellstrom, is doubtful about the number of victims of the attack reported immediately after the event. Sellstrom has suggested that many people who claimed to …
Read More »Syria: The hidden massacre
May 7, 2014, Sharmine Narwani, RT.com OpEdge The attack took place shortly after the first stirrings of trouble in the southern Syrian city of Daraa in March 2011. Several old Russian-made military trucks packed with Syrian security forces rolled onto a hard slope on a valley road between Daraa al-Mahata …
Read More »Elections in a time of civil war: America 150 years ago, and Syria today
Apr 25, 2014, RT.com Syria is scheduled to hold its presidential elections on June 3. The American media is mocking the idea of an election being held during a civil war that has left over 100,000 died and (sic)have become refugees. The media is prepared to discount the overwhelmingly expected …
Read More »Hacked E-mail Reveals Qatar’s Devious Plans to Smuggle Chemical Weapons to Syria Terrorists
May 6, 2014, al Ahed News Earlier this year, a news report revealed an email in which Qatar asked Britain’s arms contractor, BRITAM to transport chemical weapons to the Syrian town of Homs. The email was revealed after BRITAM servers were hacked and megabyted of classified internal files were released …
Read More »No Red Line Requiem for Dead Syrian Soldiers
May 4, 2014, Jeremy Salt, Palestine Chronicle The latest evidence of a chemical weapons attack in Syria has emerged in the form of a video proudly filmed by the perpetrators themselves, the so-called ‘lions’ of Jabhat al Nusra, Al Qaida’s Syrian franchise, listed by the US as a terrorist organization …
Read More »More Syrian Rebel Factions Showing Off US-Made Missiles Recipients Openly Coordinating, Sharing With al-Qaeda
May 6, 2014, Antiwar.com You can’t really send weapons to one rebel faction in Syria without them being spread amongst many groups. This reality has been a constant in the nation, where entering any faction’s territory or using any faction’s border crossing usually requires “tribute” in the form of some …
Read More »Foreign jihadis in Syria pledge their own 9/11
Burn notice: Jihadis destroy their passports in a video made by Isis, formerly al-Qa’ida in Iraq May 4, 2014, the Independent It is only a matter of time before jihadis in al-Qa’ida-type groups that have taken over much of eastern Syria and western Iraq have a violent impact on …
Read More »The Evolution of the War in Syria
May 4, 2014, Stop Imperialism.org Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org provides his analysis of the latest developments in Syria. Specifically, Draitser examines the recent statements by FBI Director Comey regarding jihadists from the US and other Western countries going to fight in Syria. Draitser explains that the changing nature of the …
Read More »Engineering Chaos: Mother Agnes-Miriam lectures neo-cons on their bad behavior
By Jane Stillwater [The Syria Solidarity Movement offers this excellent report by one of our favorite bloggers on a recent talk by Mother Agnes-Mariam under the sponsorship of St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California. Mother Agnes is also available to speak at your community in North America during May 9-13. …
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